#magnitude

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. ↗

— Ovid

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For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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